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"Political Song in Africa" published on by Oxford University Press.

This is a listing of grades for Song Junfu (宋君复), or Chin Foh Song, for classes taken at Springfield College, at the time known as the International YMCA College. The document lists the classes taken, when and the grades given. All the dates appear to be for 1921 and 1922 school year. ; Song Junfu (宋君复), or Chin Foh Song , was born on March 9st, 1897 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province. He was educated in private home schools and a local Baptist school until he went to Hangzhou Huilan Middle School (Wayland Academy) where he began to play soccer and basketball. In 1916, he came to America to study physics at Colby College (Maine) through a Chinese government program. Song came to Springfield College in the fall of 1921 to study physical education. After he left Springfield College in 1923, he went back to work for the Hangzhou Huilan Middle School. Song worked for several universities in China, including Shanghai Jianghu University, Shenyang Northeast University, Shandong University, Sichuan University, and Beijing Normal University. He not only contributed to scholarship in physical education and sport, with books like Sport Principle and Women Basketball Training, but also took interest in strengthening Chinese sport facilities. For instance, he designed the Qingdao Stadium in Qingdao, Shandong, China. Song assisted Changchun Liu, the first Chinese Olympic player, in 1932 summer Olympic in Los Angeles as a coach and mentor. For the 1936 Olympics he organized the first Chinese Olympic Men's Basketball Team, coached the Track and Field Team, and was approved as an the International Basketball Referee. In 1948 London Olympics, Song coached the Chinese Men's Basketball Team. Song passed away in Beijing in 1977.

After years of tough-on-crime politics and increasingly punitive sentencing in the United States, economic, political, and social shifts in the 21st century have created new opportunities for opponents of the penal status quo. By 2013, a majority of states had enacted some type of reform aimed at reducing prison populations. An emerging body of punishment and society scholarship seeks to understand the possibilities and characteristics of reform efforts by examining enacted state legislation. In this article, we use a unique data set of all proposed and passed bills in three legislative sessions in New Jersey between 2001 and 2013 to provide a nuanced empirical account of change and continuity in penal logics in the period of reform. Even when not enacted, proposed legislation shapes the penal field by introducing new ideas that are later incorporated into rhetoric, policy, or practice. Proposed bills that never become law can also alter the political calculus for reformers or their opponents. Our findings demonstrate that by expanding our universe of data, we gain insight into characteristics of "late mass incarceration" that we might otherwise miss. In particular, while we find evidence of decarceration and bifurcation logics, our analysis also demonstrates that state lawmakers continue to participate in "crime control theater" and reproduce the same punitive penal logics that helped build the carceral state.

Freedom Song is the third novel by Amit Chaudhuri, a well established name in the field of literary fiction. The novel is about the everyday lives of two closely related middle class Bengali families who live in Calcutta. It is about the relationship of two friends as they grow up together and grow old. The novel describes how a middle class family manages the wedding of their son who is inclined towards politics and has even joined a political party. Basically, the novel is about the everyday, ordinary, mundane lives of the Bengali family that lives in Calcutta. The novelist renews our perceptions of the familiar by the process of defamiliarization and thus makes things interesting. The concept of defamiliarization derived from the Russian word, 'ostranenie', was introduced by Victor Shlovsky in his essay, 'Art as Technique'. Defamiliarization is about renewing our perceptions of the daily, routine things with the help of literary devices and tropes like simile, metaphor, imagery and so on. It is about perceiving ordinary, mundane things in a new light. This novelty in which we perceive daily, habitual things with the help of literariness in the language becomes important. In the present paper, we will go through various examples of defamiliarisation and see how the familiar things have been defamiliarised in the novel, Freedom Song.